Monday, 6 March 2017

[cobirds] No American Goldfinch in photo

Cobirders--  Thanks to Chuck Hundermark and David Thonnessen I must correct my I.D. of American Goldfinch in my previous post this afternoon.  The lower bird in my photos is obviously a female LEGO.  Even in my haste to post the link to my images I should have noticed not only coloring was brighter than an American Goldfinch at this time and the last photo shows the strikingly similar wing primaries in the two birds.  Well, I did it again, didn’t I?  I guess this is the real lesson for the beginning birders I was hoping to elucidate.  I have now made the correction on Flickr.

Leon Bright, Pueblo

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